The families of the transgender youth of Alberta pushed a repair of compensation, for the moment, after a court decision has interrupted a provincial law prohibiting doctors from providing stupid care to young people.
Temporary injunction, transmitted on Friday By judge Allion Kuntz, said that the law could “cause irreparable damage to young people of gender” and that it should be suspended until the questions of the charter which it raises can be fully tested in court.
This is a decision that attenuated the anxieties for the mother of Alberta Haley Ray, who said that her child knew that there was something different about them only three years old.
“What I learned from having a kid that Young is that there is a self-knowledge to which we do not give credit, and I think most adults are not starting to explore,” she told Global News.
Nine years later, the transgender girl of Ray is now at the age when she uses puberty blockers, which Bill 26 of the UCP government would prohibit.
The law, which adopted at the end of last year but is not yet fully in force, prohibits doctors from providing treatment such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy under the age of 16.
“Our children already have day-to-day difficulties and have done all these spaces, and therefore when it was announced and that these political measures were announced and priority by the government, it was blind and it was, how do we do, what do we do with it?”
“It was such a relief to hear this and read what judge Kuntz had written. I think she has put a lot of intention in what she put on paper, and in order to explain and justify her approach. ”
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In the Friday decision, Kuntz wrote that the refusal of treatment of risks causing emotional damage and exposing them to permanent physical changes that do not correspond to their gender identity.
“The evidence shows that distinguishing health care for gender young people and being the subject of government control will cause irreparable damage to young people by strengthening discrimination and the prejudices to whom they are already subject,” Kuntz wrote in judgment.
“Intelliously or not, the prohibition will point out that there is something that does not go with it or suspects an identity of gender different from that of the sex which has been attributed to you at birth.”
The Prime Minister of Alberta, Danielle Smith, targeted the decision in her weekly radio program on Saturday, arguing that the courts had misunderstood the issue.
“The court said they thought there will be irreparable damage if the law was continuing. I feel the opposite,” said Smith.
The pediatric section of Alberta Medical Association called The effects of puberty blockers are not irreversibleAnd that puberty advances after stopping treatment.
Medical associations across the country have also spoken against any government proposal to restrict access to medical care based on evidence, including for transgender persons.
Smith, meanwhile, Argued that there is no consensus among the medical community About puberty blockers, citing a recent British NHS decision to limit their use.
“We actually think that we have a very solid case, we think we have been measured,” said Smith in his radio show.
“I think we have been based on evidence and we think we are on the side of the children, so we want to see how long the process will take place, but we believe that these questions are debated in court.”
Transgender Activist Victoria Bucholtz told Global News that the law, if it comes into force, will have devastating effects for young trans.
“Everyone was surprised that they were at taxpayers ‘dollars to persecute a very small population who really needs support, instead that Danielle Smith has burst into doctors’ firms by telling doctors what they are allowed to do,” said Bucholtz.
“The last time I checked, she was a radio host, not a doctor.”
Butcholtz added that the LGBTQ2 community of Alberta does not retreat and to the faith that the courts will govern in their favor.
“We will be those who will once again support human rights in this country because the homosexuals of Alberta do not lose these fights,” said Bucholtz.
The government of Alberta is expected to appeal the decision.
– with Canadian press files
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